Don’t worry I’m fine - I don’t get too upset at what is posted on a web forum. I do post on the blog myself sometimes but the latest outcry is gone too far in my book…no player should be called a thug.

In a WhatsApp group I’m in, one man took great pleasure in Mayo’s late win over Roscommon. “That’s the stuff for them bloggers,” he wrote. I thought that was a tad harsh on poor Willie Joe and his ilk. Or unfair on the Rossies, depending on your...

Some key points from the article :
But in his home in Drumcondra, John Gunnigan was getting the wheels oiled for a beast that would become the online meeting spot for Mayo football discussions, the Mayo GAA Blog.
Some people think they can say what they like online. And, in most cases, they get away with it.
The same is true of many GAA forums. It’s to John’s eternal credit that the blog rises above that.
It’s why so many people go to the blog for often informed and measured commentary. You might not always agree with the comments but they might get you thinking and reflecting on your own viewpoint. That’s the beauty of proper debate. The blog is only occasionally sullied by innuendo and insults – and only until John comes along and cleans up the mess.
The contributions of posters from other counties is a very welcome aspect to the blog and underlines how balanced and measured the commentary tends to be. Long may that continue.
Over the years John has become a valuable contributor to the pages of The Mayo News too and we’re delighted to have him on board.

" Those who have earned the right to be respected for their views over time are the ones we stop at. It could be Anne-Marie, AndyD, PJ McManus or JP, Diehard, Liam, Catcol or Pebblesmeller, John Cuffe, Hope Springs Eternal, livenhope or Jim Flag to name but a few. We rarely find ourselves agreeing"

Their great leader has lived the majority of his life in Dublin never a club member till he became a parent and then it was a Dublin club. Smacks of ungrateful & bitter the sheer hypocracy and audacity is incredulous. On a positive note, hats off to vinnies for their generosity and charity in such circumstances.

It’s a bit of an indictment on Vins @Nappertandy that they didn’t manage to refine him even a little. He must have been borderline Na Fianna where he lived. His loss. He would have turned out a fine man had he travelled that road.

I wonder does he get out of the car at all down in Vincent’s, sends the kids in with the misses. I think with the large chip on the shoulder along with the inferiority complex he wouldn’t of got through the gate at Na Fianna.
Like most I’ve been standing on the sidelines over the years not always in the best of form, merciful Christ I never met this lad.

I wonder does he get out of the car at all down in Vincent’s, sends the kids in with the misses. I think with the large chip on the shoulder along with the inferiority complex he wouldn’t of got through the gate at Na Fianna.
Like most I’ve been standing on the sidelines over the years not always in the best of form, merciful Christ I never met this lad.

Alternate reality . Dub living in Westport , member of club . Mayo have won 5 All Ireland’s . Beaten Dublin in 3 and beat them in a semi replay in 2015. Lee Keegan gets Diarmo black carded in AI replay in 2016. Not too hard to see where he’s coming from .

Not that I’m defending him but if he has such a problem with Dublin , he shouldn’t have moved up here in the first place . There is work to be had in the West despite probably half of their panel living up here . But from reading that blog they’re a miserable bunch feeling like they are owed an AI & crib about everything under the sun except looking at their own deficiencies . It’s never Mayos fault they’ve lost any of these finals . Refs , financial doping , players having to commute home to train unlike other counties , etc , etc . God knows what they’ll be like in about 5 years when the decent players they have retire .